Rana Hamadeh: The Sleepwalkers - Art Collector

Rana Hamadeh, The Sleepwalkers, 2016. Courtesy: IMA

Rana Hamadeh's The Sleepwalkers is a major new commission and the first solo exhibition of the artist in Australia. The filmed play re-dramatises the story of Raya and Sakina, the infamous Egyptian sister serial killers, who in 1921 became the first women to be executed by a legal court in the modern history of Egypt. The two sisters, along with their husbands and two other male accomplices, were found guilty of the murders of 17 women, most of whom were sex workers. The Sleepwalkers is co-commissioned by the IMA, Nottingham Contemporary, and The Showroom in London.

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